BJP president Amit Shah's indoor meeting with RSS General Secretary Suresh aka Bhaiyyaji Joshi on Tuesday here led to speculation over possible reshuffle in the BJP's organisation. A source in RSS, however, told INDIA TODAY that the key issue in the meeting was drafting a strategy to take on two "errant" Chief Ministers, Mamata Banerjee of West Bengal and Pinarayi Vijayan of Kerala.

Shah arrived in Mumbai on Monday late night after attending the BJP national executive meeting in Delhi. He held a closed door meeting with Joshi at the RSS office in Dadar for one and half hour. The source said that Joshi has instructed Shah to contain the left organisations as "they are creating unrest in the country." Joshi was in Mumbai to attend a function organised by Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini, a RSS oriented think tank.

Joshi explained to Shah that the violence by the left parties in Kerala is on the top of RSS agenda. Most of the organisations Sangh Parivar such as the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) have launched agitations across the country against the left violence. Joshi asked Shah to back them. He also caught Shah's attention towards Banerjee's Muslim appeasement politics. "Bhaiyyaji told Amitbhai that divisive politics is getting stronger in Bengal. BJP should take the issue seriously," the source said.

Joshi told reports that the meeting was just a courtesy call. "We are friends. He wanted to discuss some of the things that happened at the BJP's national executive meet and hence we met," Joshi said. "Some discussions are very private in nature and can't be discussed in public."

Joshi declined to comment on questions on political developments in the country as well as Maharashtra.

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